Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC Spreadsheet Control
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This section briefly explains about how to include ASP.NET MVC Spreadsheet control in your ASP.NET MVC application using Visual Studio.
Prerequisites
System requirements for ASP.NET MVC controls
Create ASP.NET MVC application with HTML helper
Install ASP.NET MVC package in the application
To add ASP.NET MVC
controls in the application, open the NuGet package manager in Visual Studio (Tools → NuGet Package Manager → Manage NuGet Packages for Solution), search for Syncfusion.EJ2.MVC5 and then install it.
Install-Package Syncfusion.EJ2.MVC5 -Version 27.1.48
NOTE
Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC controls are available in nuget.org. Refer to NuGet packages topic to learn more about installing NuGet packages in various OS environments. The Syncfusion.EJ2.MVC5 NuGet package has dependencies, Newtonsoft.Json for JSON serialization and Syncfusion.Licensing for validating Syncfusion license key.
NOTE
If you create ASP.NET MVC application with MVC4 package, search for Syncfusion.EJ2.MVC4 and then install it.
Add namespace
Add Syncfusion.EJ2 namespace reference in Web.config
under Views
folder.
<namespaces>
<add namespace="Syncfusion.EJ2"/>
</namespaces>
Add stylesheet and script resources
Here, the theme and script is referred using CDN inside the <head>
of ~/Pages/Shared/_Layout.cshtml
file as follows,
<head>
...
<!-- Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC controls styles -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/27.1.48/fluent.css" />
<!-- Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC controls scripts -->
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/27.1.48/dist/ej2.min.js"></script>
</head>
NOTE
Checkout the Themes topic to learn different ways (CDN, NPM package, and CRG) to refer styles in ASP.NET MVC application, and to have the expected appearance for Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC controls. Checkout the Adding Script Reference topic to learn different approaches for adding script references in your ASP.NET MVC application.
Register Syncfusion script manager
Also, register the script manager EJS().ScriptManager()
at the end of <body>
in the ~/Pages/Shared/_Layout.cshtml
file as follows.
<body>
...
<!-- Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC Script Manager -->
@Html.EJS().ScriptManager()
</body>
Add ASP.NET MVC Spreadsheet control
Now, add the Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC Spreadsheet control in ~/Views/Home/Index.cshtml
page.
@Html.EJS().Spreadsheet("spreadsheet").Render()
Press Ctrl+F5 (Windows) or ⌘+F5 (macOS) to run the app. Then, the Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC Spreadsheet control will be rendered in the default web browser.
NOTE
See also
NOTE
You can refer to our ASP.NET MVC Spreadsheet feature tour page for its groundbreaking feature representations. You can also explore our ASP.NET MVC Spreadsheet example that shows you how present and manipulate data, including editing, formulas, formatting, importing, and exporting.